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Qualifikation

The 20 players who are contesting the Uncle Pop 2017 Women’s World Cup presented by Polar Naturals comprises of:

• 17 players who qualified through their respective Continental Cups.
• If no players qualify from the host association through the above avenues, the host association may nominate a player
• The final player is chosen by the ITTF as a wildcard.
• The current World Champion*
• If the World Champion is not available or withdraws, she shall be replaced by the remaining highest ranked and highest finisher from the Continental Cups*
* DING Ning has withdrew from the tournament and has been replaced by LIU Shiwen


How the 17 places are determined through the Continental Cup:

• The winner of each Continental Cup, plus the second and third highest finishers from Asia and Europe qualify; a total of 10 players.
• Seven additional players are selected from the Continental Cups based on their order of finishing and their World Ranking. The highest ranked player amongst players finishing second in Africa, Latin America, North America, Oceania, and fourth in Asia and Europe, are selected. The highest ranked next player from the remaining players in the top most places on the qualifying positions from each Continental Cup, are selected, and so on, until the seven places are filled.


Stage One

• In stage one, the players seeded nine to 20 (12 players) are drawn into four equal groups of three players, with all members of a group playing each other.
• Players seeded 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th head each group A, B, C and D respectively.
• Players seeded 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th are drawn randomly into the second position of each preliminary group.
• The remaining players seeded 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th are drawn randomly into the third and last position in each preliminary group
• If there are 2 players from the same Association, they will be drawn into separate groups.
• The top 2 finishers of each preliminary group shall join the top 8 seeded players in the second stage of the competition


Stage Two

• Stage two is knock-out stage of the competition.
• The draw for seeded 1st – 8th will be done according to ITTF Regulations.
• Seed 1 placed in position 1, seed 2 placed in position 16
• Seeds 3 and 4 drawn between position 8 and 9
• Seeds 5-8 drawn randomly into positions 4, 5, 12 and 13.
• Group winners from the preliminary stage will be drawn randomly into positions 3, 6, 11 and 14.
• The second place finishers of each group shall be drawn randomly into positions 2, 7, 10 and 15 of the draw; group winners and second place finishers from the same group will be drawn into opposite halves of the draw; there will be no separation by association.
• Losers of the semi-finals play each other for third place.
• All matches will be played to the best of 7 games.